Webbing support for upholstery



Dec. 15, 1931. A. J. GALLA 1,336,463

WEBBING SUPPORT FOR UPHOLSTERY Filed April 27. 1929 ATTORNEY Patented Dec. 15, 1931 UNITED STATES ANDREW J'. GALLA, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY WEBBING SUPPORT Application filed. April 27,

My invention relates to devices for sup porting the webbing, with the springs sup ported thereon, used on articles of furniture such as sofas, chairs and the like and has for its general object the provision of a support having a broad horizontal webbing-receiving surface provided with upright flat securing members, extending from the broad, webbingreceiving surface, and preferably formed from a single piece of suitable material which will resist the tendency of the usual strains on the webbing from pulling away from the frame of the article to which it is attached.

A further object of my invention is to provide the broad, horizontal, webbing-receiving member with preferably integral securing means to additionally prevent displacement of the webbing from the article to which it is secured.

Another object of my invention is to provide a device of the character described which can be made from a single piece of suitable material, such as sheet metal, by the use of ordinary punches and dies which is inexpensive to construct, eificient in operation and durable in use.

These and other advantages, which will later appear, are accomplished by the simple and practical construction and arrangement of parts hereinafter described, reference being had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, it being understood that the drawings are merely illustrative, and in which like numerals indicate like parts.

Figure 1 represents a perspective view of my improved device.

Figure 2 represents a transverse sectional View taken on line 22 of Figure 1.

Figure 3 represents a modified form of my improved device.

Figure 4 represents a transverse sectional View taken on line 4-4 of Figure 3.

In the drawings, 5 represents my improved device formed from a single piece of suitable material, preferably steel, presenting a broad, horizontal, webbing-receiving member 6 pro vided with. a plurality of apertures 7 to re ceive nails 8 for securing the support to the frame of a chair, sofa or the like.

son uPnoLs'rEnY 1929; Serial No. 358,565.

9 represents upright securing membersintegrally formed on the broad, horizontal, webbing-receiving member 6 also provided with apertures 10 to receive the nails 11.

The webbing 12, which supports the usual spiral springs (not shown), is interposed between the frame 13 and the broad, horizontal, webbing-receiving member 6, as clearly shown in Figures 2 and 4 of the drawing.

In Figure 3a modified form of my invention is illustrated in which integral prongs 14 are formed along one edge of the broad, horizontal, webbing-receiving member 6 to take the place of the apertures 7 and nails 8, and along the opposite edge of said member similar prongs 15 are provided to form additional supports for the webbing 12. A pair of elongated slots 16, 16 are also provided through which the webbing is passed for further securing it to the support.

The securing members 9 are formed by cut-- ting in from one of the horizontal edges of the blank from which the device is made and bent up at an angle so as to be positioned approximately midway of the horizontal edges of the webbing-receiving member 6 thereby providing a support for the webbing which extends outward from the frame of the chair or the like to which it is secured.

The securing members 9 in the modified form illustrated in Figures 3 and 4, may also be provided with integral prongs 17 to take the place of the apertures 10 and nails 11.

It is to be understood that these devices are made in various sizes and that the webbing 12 which they support, is usually of the width to fit between the securing members and held against the frame of the chair, sofa or the like by the broad horizontal, webbingreceiving member 6.

The foregoing disclosure is to be regarded as descriptive and illustrative only, and not as restrictive or limitative of the invention, of which obviously an embodiment may be constructed including many modifications without departing from the general scope herein indicated and denoted in the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. A webbing support having a base member provided with parallel slots, securing members bent upwardly from the ends and between the longitudinal edges of said base member, said securing members being parallel to the longitudinal edges of the base member, and prongs projecting up from the upper 10 side of the base member.

2. In combination with webbing for upholstery, a support having a base member provided with parallel slots, the Webbing passing over the upper surface of the base member through one slot to the lower surface and then through the other slot back to the upper surface to provide a snubbing action, prongs on v the upper surface piercing the webbing and arranged in opposition to the pull of the Webbing, and securing members bent upwardly from the base member at each end thereof, said securing members being parallel With and between the longitudinal edges of the "base member.

This specification signed this 26th day of I April, 1929.

ANDREW J. GALLA. 

